Page Rank & Buying domains.

[biziboy]

Do domains purchased with a page rank keep their pagerank?
What if the name of the person who registers it changes?
Or if the content is completely overhauled?

[121603]

depends on the sites linking to the domain. :) depends on whether those links will stay or not. ;)

[NeoGen]

It really depends on back links and content. I remember selling a PR4 site to some one and to my surprise after a month I discovered that PR has reached PR6. The guy who bought that domain left the content as is. So pretty much no change in content or backlinks.

[biziboy]

thanks for the responses.... to me it does not make sense that the contetn change would make a differance because what if a non-sol domain overhauled its content? would itlose its PR?

also ive heard that when a domainis reregistered, the old backlink dont count and the new backlinks count more....

[eddy2099]

It depends.

From my experience, if you purchase a domain name which has not expired then all the page rank should maintain but it can go up or down during the next update depending on whether the backlinks are maintained. Of course, if you do not do anything to the site, the next update can bring the PR down. I bought a PR4 website before and it went down to PR0 during the next update.

For an expired domain name, it basically resets as if it is brand new and PR don't follow.

[quick5pnt0]

How would the googlebot know the domain expired?

[eddy2099]

A domain name that has expired would be released from the Domain Name Registry and when someone purchase it after it has expired, the Created On date will be set to the most recent purchase date and not the original creation date.

Each domain name has a Expired On date. I assume the googlebot is intelligent enough to do a whois and take the expiration date and compare it with the current date. That is assuming that the domain name has just expired and is still in the redemption period. If the domain name has been out of the redemption period, it will no longer exist in the domain name database as being active, ie release to anyone who wants to register it.

[twelfty]

i registered www.websitedesigners.ws earlier this year and have done nothing with it - it's just parked.

BUT... it has PR3. not complaining but how does that that work then? :confused:

maybe i should use the domain properly as a directory or something? any susggestions?

twelfty

[eddy2099]

i registered www.websitedesigners.ws earlier this year and have done nothing with it - it's just parked.

BUT... it has PR3. not complaining but how does that that work then? :confused:


There was a good backlink to the site from http://www.tkporter.com/ . That probably explains why it is indexed and have PR.

[twelfty]

There was a good backlink to the site from http://www.tkporter.com/ . That probably explains why it is indexed and have PR.

hi eddy,

i've just been to that site for a look but i don't see any link and it doesn't come up as a link on google either.

and... tkporter is only PR2

twelfty

[biziboy]

so you must buy the domain before it expires, a domain push by someone else would be fine though right? would google detect the change in registration info for new owner?

and does the change,in content have any consequenses?

[eddy2099]

I saw the link to websitedesigners.ws listed under Sample. It is the 4th link from the bottom. Apparently, the link was spidered by Yahoo.

If you buy the domain name before it expires, it would not be taken as a new site. However, any change in contents and link backs may cause PR to change during the next update.

[epic1231]

interesting reading, so really when a domain expires there is no guarentee the PR will stay the same but at the same time no promise it will be deleted am i correct with saying that?

[eddy2099]

With PR, there is no guarantee of anything. It can go up or down. Of course, if you take over an existing web site with PR and maintain the site, chances are the PR would stay.

Yes, when the domain expires, you may probably just maintain PR for until PR updates. I've bought a couple of expired domains in the past because a check slows there was PR, when I bought it, it went to PR 0. Good thing is that I did not spend too much on them.

[InnovationZen]

talking about domains and PR, some time ago i bought FutureTechWeb.com

i did put some content there for the first month, but then i decided to stop paying godaddy and just kept the domain with no site... but when I the other day i went to check and I discovered the domain has a PR 4, how is that possible? it had 10 backlinks at most...

[jeremyalyea]

My understanding is that if a domain expires, it could lose its pagerank and could be sandboxed for the new owner. If you push an active domain, you shouldn't see any change in PR if the backlinks stay in tact. However, many people have multiple sites. When they sell one of their domains, they may remove backlinks from their other sites which could then effect your PR due to the loss of backlinks.